What does it take to fund collective impact work that lasts beyond initial grants and sustain systems change over 10+ years? This interactive session explores the critical gap between funding projects and funding networks, drawing on real examples from long-thriving networks and collaboratives that have successfully navigated funding transitions. We'll examine diverse funding mixes beyond traditional foundation grants, discover emerging innovations from networks designing their own funding structures, and apply key principles for sustainable funding to your own context. Through interactive discussion, peer learning, and hands-on tools, you'll develop a strategic approach that moves beyond scrambling for the next grant cycle toward building a movement-oriented funding model, leaving with practical strategies and concrete next steps.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Understand diverse funding models across different types of collaboratives and evaluate emerging innovations (networks building funding infrastructure, staged pipeline models, pooled funds, non-traditional revenue) for applicability to your context.
• Productively leverage critical funding tensions (such as quick wins vs. systemic change, centralized vs. decentralized approaches, and funder vs. network language) using both/and strategies.
• Start to draft a strategic resourcing plan that identifies your priority next steps for building funding capacity individually and collectively, and connect with peers facing similar challenges to continue learning beyond the summit.